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Re:Are We Wayland Yet? by qplex on Monday November 25, 2019 @02:29AM (#21626139)
It's not just the Wayland/EGL stuff with Nvidia.

They've been called 'the worst company to work with' by the Linux kernel devs and are locking their GPUs down with signed firmware. Nouveau driver development is no longer possible for GM20x and newer GPUs because of this.

Re:Are We Wayland Yet? by cies on Monday November 25, 2019 @03:21AM (#21626329)
Hence...

> --my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia

Re:Are We Wayland Yet? by pjmlp on Monday November 25, 2019 @06:04AM (#21627025)
I though I was doing a good deed buying a netbook with AMD CPU, because of their FOSS love and such, then they decided that Brazos APUs aren't worth supporting beyond basic features.

Since then I just decided that no matter what, GNU/Linux is not the platform for anyone that actually cares about desktop graphics programming.

Re:Are We Wayland Yet? by vertex-four on Monday November 25, 2019 @07:28AM (#21627491)
Brazos is 2011-era, right? amdgpu has become a thing since then - AMD now officially supports their GPUs on Linux, including those in most APUs.
Re:Are We Wayland Yet? by pjmlp on Monday November 25, 2019 @08:13AM (#21627796)
Except that it doesn't provide the same OpenGL features and hardware video decoding as fxglr.

So much for "supports".

Re:Are We Wayland Yet? by jl6 on Monday November 25, 2019 @03:24AM (#21626336)
I recently built a new PC and my GPU was a Radeon RX 5700 for exactly this reason.
Re:Are We Wayland Yet? by eleitl on Monday November 25, 2019 @07:15AM (#21627410)
Way ahead of you here.

And regardless of how https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm pans out, at least you're not sinking skills into a proprietary jail.